23 April 2014

Is Fashion Art?

Designed to appeal to as many as possible -- Vineyard Vines, J Crew, Ralph & Tommy -- All reflect fashion at its most mundane. Which is why some styles of the past are so interesting. In a way, we're endorsing past generation's aesthetic and taste... sometimes over hundreds of years. That's not so much what fashion does as it is what art does.

Some fashion is certainly art, and some is definitely not. I think there's plenty of room for differentiation on the spectrum. A classically styled jacket from (ex.) Anderson & Sheppard will speak much more of "aesthetic and taste" than any of the fast fashion brands glutting the scene today, I think. Though as brohammas notes, it's all opinion. This might end up as a high art v. low art question.